Question

I have been working on a Django application lately, trying to get it to work with Amazon Elastic Beanstalk.

In my .ebextensions/python.config file, I have set the following:

option_settings:
  - namespace: aws:elasticbeanstalk:application:environment
    option_name:  ProductionBucket
    value: s3-bucket-name
  - namespace: aws:elasticbeanstalk:application:environment
    option_name:  ProductionCache
    value:  memcached-server.site.com:11211

However, whenever I look on the server, no such environment variables are set (and as such, aren’t accessible when I try os.getenv('ProductionBucket')

I came across this this page which appears to attempt to document all the namespaces. I’ve also tried using PARAM1 as the option name, but have had similar results.

How can I set environment variables in Amazon Elastic Beanstalk?

EDIT:
I have also tried adding a command prior to all other commands which would just export an environment variable:

commands:
 01_env_vars:
  command: "source scripts/env_vars"

… This was also unsuccessful

Answer 1

I’ve checked using a modern (i.e., non legacy) container, and found it under /opt/elasticbeanstalk/deploy/configuration/containerconfiguration as a json file.

The Behaviour seems to be Platform-Dependent: I remember in PHP in particular, it also creates some shell scripts with the values.

Regardless of that, look into /opt/elasticbeanstalk/hooks/configdeploy.

Java case again, it runs this python script, which looks quite handy for you:

https://gist.github.com/19c1e4b718f9a70a4ce1